John McQueen, former Representative from South Carolina's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1859-1861	Representative	South Carolina's 1^st District
1857-1859	Representative	South Carolina's 1^st District
1855-1857	Representative	South Carolina's 1^st District
1853-1855	Representative	South Carolina's 1^st District
1851-1853	Representative	South Carolina's 4^th District
1849-1851	Representative	South Carolina's 4^th District
1847-1849	Representative	South Carolina's 4^th District

Voting Record

From May 1848 to Dec 1860, McQueen missed 819 of 3,277 roll call votes, which is 25.0%. This is worse than the median of 23.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1860. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1848 Apr-Jul	1	1	100.0%	95^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	75	3	4.0%	0^th
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	108	5	4.6%	9^th
1850 Mar-May	68	8	11.8%	27^th
1850 Jun-Aug	146	2	1.4%	0^th
1850 Sep-Sep	116	5	4.3%	5^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	133	25	18.8%	41^st
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	92	52	56.5%	87^th
1852 Apr-Jul	178	34	19.1%	45^th
1852 Aug-Aug	64	9	14.1%	27^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	114	55	48.2%	83^rd
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	111	17	15.3%	39^th
1854 Apr-Jul	305	259	84.9%	96^th
1854 Aug-Aug	33	3	9.1%	30^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	155	34	21.9%	57^th
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	173	22	12.7%	46^th
1856 Apr-Jul	200	78	39.0%	68^th
1856 Aug-Aug	73	23	31.5%	73^rd
1856 Aug-Aug	44	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	230	38	16.5%	49^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	103	12	11.7%	40^th
1858 Mar-May	179	24	13.4%	35^th
1858 Jun-Jun	67	22	32.8%	63^rd
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	194	27	13.9%	37^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	69	3	4.3%	22^nd
1860 Mar-May	126	33	26.2%	50^th
1860 Jun-Jun	97	14	14.4%	19^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	23	11	47.8%	85^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000